Bushmiller, Ernest Paul (Ernie)

1919 - Ernie Bushmiller left high school at 14 years old to work as a copy boy for the New York World newspaper.

1925 - Ernie Bushmiller was given the job of drawing the shapely comic strip flapper Fritzi Ritz when its originator moved onto another comic strip.

- The ambitious teenager studied art after his workdays at the National Academy of Design, so when Larry Whittington decided to leave his three-year-old comic creation Fritzi Ritz, Ernie was recruited to take over.